- Dec 16, 2017
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Oh totally, I think it's a throwback. It's very much an older/younger generation thing. Good old Levy throwing in his two cents as always, You shall not make any gashes in your flesh for the dead or tattoo any marks upon you.I mean if this was truly an issue in the US then basically every nurse and like 75% of the practitioners I ever worked with would be unemployed. Most of them have sleeves or a half sleeve. Some have tattoos you could see sticking out onto their chests too. It's just not really an issue I hear people talk about anymore and haven't heard since I was a teenager in the 2000s, but I'm sure it's different in some parts of the US too.
I understand some cultures look down on it quite a bit. I thought it was funny when I went to an onsen in Japan and they had a sign out front saying "no marks of crime allowed" and understand where that association comes from. That's why I assume it's probably a cultural thing for a lot of other countries too.
As an aside, I wouldn't think people with a sleeve are trailer trash, mainly cause I've seen the price of a good proper sleeve and they're meaty. No one living in a tin box is affording one of those